Rowdy jaguar cubs. (Whoa!) Roly-poly pandas. (Awwww!) Squealing capybara rodents the size of dogs. (Eeek!) It is baby season at the San Diego Zoo and the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, and precious comes in all shapes and sizes. With new babies busting out all over and last season’s youngsters milking those last drops of adorability, this is the time to get your warm-and-fuzzies on.

From little stars like Xiao Liwu the panda to unlikely charmers like the toddling takins, here’s what it looks like when San Diego’s Animal Kingdom gets an attack of the cutes. Tell the Visayan warty pigs we sent you.

The Incredible Mr. Wu

You won’t need a map to find the Xiao Liwu, the little emperor of the Zoo’s bamboo jungle. Just follow the crowds to the Panda Trek exhibit, where the seven-month-old giant panda cub they call “Mr. Wu” is busy turning humans into mush. If mush could hold a camera and spend all its discretionary funds on panda coffee mugs.

Best visiting hours: Xiao Liwu will not be in the exhibit for the next few days, but when he returns, try to be there for the 11 a.m. feeding, where you you might catch him stealing an apple from mother Bai Yun. Cutest criminal ever!

Let him entertain you: He loves to climb trees, hide in the moat and sleep wherever he drops. Like most youngsters, Mr. Wu also treats his mother like a combination jungle gym and chew toy. And like most mothers, Bai Yun knows when she’s had enough.

“I love it when he jumps on mom’s back and she throws him off,” said senior keeper Jennifer Becerra. “People think she’s being mean, but she’s just teaching him how to be a bear.”

Tiny Takins

For a break from the cooing panda masses, step to the nearby Sichuan takin enclosure. These Himalayan hoofed oddities may look like woolly mammoths, but the two adorkable calves (one boy and one girl) seem as cuddly as petting-zoo ponies. And not just because their horns haven’t come in yet.

Visiting tips: The enclosure is small, so any view is a good one. And because the calves are busy kids, any time is takin time.

Let them entertain you: When they aren’t harassing their elders, the calves spar with each other, nuzzle their horn nubbins against all available surfaces and scuttle up to their table-rock platform for a photo that practically takes itself. Save a few squeals for the neighboring Visayan warty pig exhibit, where corncob-stealing piglets will also abscond with your heart.

Meet the Jaguars

At nearly one-year old, jaguar cubs Tikal (the boy) and Maderas (the girl) are almost as big as their Mom, but they’re twice as troublemaking. The rambunctious siblings will be sent to other zoos within the next few months, so catch them in their leafy Elephant Odyssey enclosure while you can.

Best visiting times: Between noon and 1 p.m. when Elephant Odyssey holds its daily “Active Zone” animal-enrichment activities; 2:30 p.m. for “Cat Talk” (which features the jaguars or the nearby lions); and Rabbit Sundays, when Mom (Nindiri) and kids have their way with three whole rabbit carcasses.